Trading Routes: Grease Trails, Oil Futures is a publicly-engaged, trans-disciplinary art and research project undertaken in the midst of a liminal moment in Canadian history. In the pursuit of the nation’s place among world energy superpowers, debates have emerged about the benefits and social and environmental risks associated with rapid changes brought about from investment in fossil fuel industries. Trading Routes, seeks to contribute to this discourse by engaging with the interlaced terrain of traditional Indigenous trading routes and an ever-expanding network of oil and gas pipelines throughout British Columbia. How do Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, storytellers, and teachers enter into dialogue on and around this contested geography? How does direct experience of land mitigate understandings of self, wealth, or energy security? Trading Routes serves as a point of convergence for a timely dialogue about regional, national, and global futures. The project comprises art practice, public engagement and publication.